Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto create-drop doesn't seem to work in 10.3 JPA

Question

Greetings,
I'm migrating an JPA application from JBoss 5.0 to WebLogic 10.3. In order to simplify the problem, I have the following entity:
package fr.simplex_software.p204.domain;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;
@Entity
@Table(name="AUTHOR")
public class Author implements Serializable
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@Id
@Column(name="AUTHOR_ID", nullable=false)
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long id;
public Long getId()
return id;
public void setId(Long id)
this.id = id;
I also have the following persistence.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="p204-ejbPU" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<jta-data-source>java:/jdbc/TestDS</jta-data-source>
<exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
When I deploy the application in JBoss 5.0, the table AUTHOR is created. When I deploy the same in WebLogic 10.3, the table isn't created and nothing happens. Should I do anything of special ?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Kind regards,
Nicolas

Answer 1

Hi Matt, thanks for your reply. Yes, I did. Actually I'm testing the JDBC data-source in WebLogic console and the test is successfull. Also, exactly the same app correctly deploys in JBoss. In the WebLogic console I can see my EAR deployed, I'm running some standalone clients against some SLSB in the EAR and they work properly and I'm sure that if I'm manually creating the data-model, the JPA entities will work. The only thing which doesn't seem to work is the automatically data-model creation. I thought that Hibernate may not be so intimatelly integrated with WebLogic as with JBoss and I tried to use Kodo, but I didn't find any auto create-drop equivalent feature. I continue digging but stiil interested by any suggestion, if any.
Many thanks in advance,
Nicolas